Edmund Crispin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
-
If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
-
I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
-
Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.
-
I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.
-
Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.
-
The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
-
When you're an actor, you do get involved with your characters - your emotional life is tied up with theirs, and so is your physical life.
-
The notion that moving toward renewable energy will kill jobs is an absurdity on its face. The notion that we have to live smaller lifestyles; not have the American way of life or give up the American Dream is just ridiculous. It is the opposite of the case; a new energy paradigm will create opportunity.
-
It doesn't feel good when you have to struggle to get your pants on.
-
The DISCLOSE Act is a testament to the wisdom of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. The First Amendment sought to place political speech beyond the government's control, and we can be glad that it did.
-
Love dies only when growth stops.
-
With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future.
-
Protecting our Great Lakes and conserving this resource for the next generation is critical both for surrounding communities and our planet as a whole.
-
On a show like 'Oz,' I was wearing Dickies and a cut-off shirt and a gold cross.
-
I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.
-
Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.
-
I never really had an itch for gambling. I work hard for my money, so I don't like going out and giving it away like that.
-
AIDS had landed and I was terrified. I was very scared, just as everyone was in the '80s. It was really hard to be sexually active and to sleep with men and with women and not feel you had a responsibility in terms of having safe sex.
-
Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.
-
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
-
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.
-
George W. Bush was a very bad president. The Iraq war was a big mistake. The U.S.A. needed a political change. I hoped Barack Obama could be a good president, but I'm disappointed. He hasn't done well.
-
The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility....
